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Inside Today’s Record
Warwick Township P.D. Officer Rich Groff was one of nine law
enforcement officers selected td be honored by the police
committee of the Lancaster City-County Human Relations
Commission. Read why on page 24.
U titz contractor Fred Behm was asked to create a new dome
for the historic Glen Mills School for Boys. He calls the copper
enhanced dome his “ best effort. ” Read why on page 18.
Officer Ed Tobin of Warwick Township P.D. is concerned that
young bicyclists may not know enough about safety and has
decided to hold a combination bike rodeo, bike inspection, and
bike registration. Read about his plans on page 20.
L ititz laycees have announced that the U titz Springs Park
concession stand is now open weekends. Read about the hours
and plans for the current season on page 24.
Members of the U titz Aquarius tw irl team won a state
championship. Read about it on page 15.
Lititz woman remains
hospitalized as a result
of crash injuries
Lititz Springs Pool opens Saturday
A Lititz woman, Sylvia
Marie Heiland, 42, of
Plateau Village, Newport
Road, remains in critical
condition at Lancaster
General Hospital’s constant
care surgical unit a result of
injuries sustained in an
accident May 16.
Heiland was admitted to
LGH for treatment of head,
abdominal and orthopedic
injuries.
Penn Township Police
Chief Herbert Weidman said
that the accident occurred
about 2:15 p.m. at Tem­perance
Hill and Lexington
roads.
Sarah Furlow escaped injury and her passenger received minor injuries in an
early morning car/tractor-trailer/pick-up truck crash May 20.
One injured in boro accident
at Lemon and Broad streets One woman was slightly
injured May 20 about 7:30
a.m. when a car in which she
was a passenger collided
with a tractor trailer at
Broad and Lemon streets.
lititz Borough P.D. Of­ficer
Harry Yochum
reported that Sarah Weid­man,
78, of 600 E. Main St.,
Apt. 124, was transported to
Lancaster General Hospital
by Warwick Ambulance
after complaining of neck
and back stiffness. She was
treated and released from
LGH. She was a passenger in
a car driven by Sarah H.
Furlow, 78, of 310 Balmer
Rd. Furlow was shaken, but
declined medical assistance.
Yochum said that Furlow
had stopped her 1984 Buick
Century at the stop sign at
West Lemon Street and
turned right to go south on
Rt. 501. Her vehicle struck a
tractor trailer being driven
south on Rt. 501 by Eugene
Anderson, Peach Bottom R2.
The Furlow vehicle struck
the cab near the fuel tank on
the passenger side of the
truck. The impact caused
the car to turn 180 degrees
and strike the trailer portion
of the vehicle. That impact
caused the car to go west and
hit a parked 1978 Ford pick­up
truck owned by R. Bruce
Hamilton, 206 S. Broad St.
Yochum said that the
tractor trailer driver had no
choice but to continue in his
lane because there were two
on-coming cars preventing
him from swerving to try to
avoid the Furlow vehicle.
The Furlow vehicle was
extensively damaged and
was towed by F orry and
Forry Garage.
“The Lititz Fire Depart­ment
and fire police did a
super job. The fire police had
traffic moving in less than
ten minutes and the fire
department did a great job
in cleaning up the debris
from about 75 yards of Broad
Street to reopen the south­bound
lane,” Yochum said.
Charges against Furlow
are pending completion of
the investigation, according
to Yochum.
Early deadlines
Because of the May 25
Memorial Day holiday,
deadlines for Record
a d v e r tis in g and
editorial copy have been
moved forward.
Retail display ads and
editorial copy for
church, social and
Manheim pages must be
in the Record Express
office by 5 p.m. on
Friday, May 22. Other
news items will be
accepted until noon on
Tuesday, May 26.
D e a d lin e s for
classified ads remain
the same and will be
accepted until 5 p.m.
Tuesday.
Memorial Day services
set in Utitz, Rothsville
Joseph A. Palermo,
eastern vice commander of
the American Legion,
Department of Penn­sylvania,
will be the speaker
at Memorial Day Services in
lititz and Rothsville on
Monday, May 25.
Joseph, a resident of
Ambler, is a veteran of the
Korean Conflict. He is a
recipient of the American
Legion Citizenship Medal
and Chapel of the Four
Chaplains Legion of Honor
Award.
In Lititz, the traditional
service and parade are being
sponsored by the American
Legion Post 56 and the
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Post 1463, with rites
beginning at 10:45 a.m. at
the Moravian Cemetery. The
parade will form at 10:30
a.m. on Warwick Street and
proceed at 10:45 a.m. east on
West Lincoln Avenue to
Broad Street, move south to
Main Street, east on Main
Street to Church Square,
then south to the Moravian
Cemetery. Organizations
participating in the parade
Joseph A. Palermo
should report at the starting
point promptly at 10:30 a.m.
Scouting organizations
and community children are
encouraged to bring flowers
to decorate the graves. The
Rev. Martha B. Sheaffer, co­pastor
of St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church, Lititz, will give the
invocation. William Stauffer
will lead the audience in
singing “America” and
“The National Anthem,”
accompanied by the War­wick
High School Band and
the Lititz Community Band.
Lisa Weidman, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Weidman, Lititz, will recite
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Ad­dress.
Ms. Sheaffer will give
the benediction.
The Rothsville service
In Rothsville, the parade
will form at the Rothsville
Fire Hall at 9:15 a.m. and
move west on Main Street
and proceed to the Lutheran
Cemetery where the service
will begin at 9:30 a.m.
The Rev. Robert A.
Smethers Jr., pastor of
Salem United Methodist
Church, Rothsville, will give
the invocation. The Warwick
High School Band will play
“America” and “ The
National Anthem.” Again,
Lisa Weidman will present
Lincoln’s Address. Rev.
Robert A. Smethers Jr. will
pronounce the benediction.
Details of the parade and
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Officer Larry Snavely,
who investigated the ac­cident,
reported that Heiland
was driving north on
Lexington Road, stopped for
a stop sign, and pulled into
the path of a vehicle being
driven east on Temperance
Hill Road by Theresa
Burkholder, 19, of Manheim
Rl.
Burkholder was treated
and released at LGH. Nicole
Long, 17, and Heather
Meamey, 17, both of 13
Pfautz Ave., passengers in
the Burkholder vehicle,
escaped serious injury.
Warwick, Manheim
Memorial and Mount Joy
ambulances and the Lititz
Fire Company responded to
the scene.
Both veh ic le s were
severely damaged and had
to be towed from the scene.
Temperance Hill Road was
closed for about one hour.
by Becky Collins
Hot weather and cool
water are the main
ingredients of a fun day in
the sun. But you don’t have
to go to the shore to catch
some rays over ' the
Memorial Day weekend.
The Lititz Springs
Swimming Pool will hold its
annual Opening Day on
Saturday, May 23, and the
borough’s public works
department has been
working at a fever pitch to
ready the pools for
splashdown.
There are a few problems,
however. Nevin Koch, Lititz
Borough’s director of public
works, notes that borough
works crews have been
repairing fill lines on the old
pool and are waiting for a
circulation valve for the
racing pool before the filling
operation begins.
“We’re hoping that we can
get at least one pool ready
for opening day,” Koch
noted. “We still have to
blacktop around the old pool
and we are going to have to
replace the coping around
the kiddie pool.”
“We’re hoping for good
weather so we can continue
to work without delay,”
Koch remarked Monday. “If
all goes well, we should be
done by the weekend'”
Opening Day will be
celebrated with free ad­mission.
The following day,
Sunday, May 24, the regular
admission fee of $2.50 for
adults, $2 for minor children
age 10-17, $1 for children age
6-9, and $.50 for children
under age 6 will be charged.
Season tickets are available
through the Lititz Borough
office.
The pool will open at 1 p.m.
and close at 8 p.m. or as
directed by the pool
manager. Only conventional
non-frayed swimming suits
will be permitted in the
swimming pool.
The pool will be open on
Memorial Day and on
weekends throughout the
end of school, then daily all
summer long.
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Lititz Public Works department crews have been
busy repairing the piping to the old pool and
replacing coping on the kiddie pool. The annual
Opening Day will be held at Lititz Springs Pool this
Saturday, but could be limited to just the racing
pool. “ The following weekend, we should be back
to normal,” notes pool manager, Andy Amway.
Voting here
rained out
Lititz pool personnel CPR certified
Imitating the weather,
local voters drizzled into
area polling places Tuesday.
It was an election with
virtually no local contests.
Incumbent county com­missioner
James Huber’s
successful fight to land an
unendorsed November
election slot for a third time
apparently did not provide a
strong enough incentive for
local voters to come out in
the rain and cast their
ballots.
Contacted Wednesday
morning, Charles Steffy,
committeeman for the
borough’s third ward, first
precinct, calculated that
only 25 percent of his
district’s registered voters
had come in to vote by 6:30
p.m. Polls closed at 8 p.m.
The area’s one local
contest between incumbent
E liz a b e th Township
supervisor Jay R. Ober and
his opponent Jerome L.
Peters, president of the
Penryn Fire Co., resulted in
a dose race, with Ober
receiving 114 votes to 93 for
Peters.
According to Barbara
Tshudy, chairman of the
Warwick Area Republican
Committee, only 10 votes are
needed to elect a candidate
who runs unopposed.
In Tuesday’s primary
here, candidates for the
Warwick School Board,
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Lifeguards, office, snack,
and manager personnel at
Lititz Springs Swimming
Pool c om p le ted
requirements for CPR
certification May 18.
According to Andy Am-way,
manager, this marks
the first year that all guards
were required to be CPR
certified. In recent years, a
number of the guards had
been certified since they
were also ambulance
volunteers.
Amway’s wife, Sylvia, a
nurse and Red Cross
volunteer CPR instructor,
prepared the eight for the
certification.
Those who completed
certification requirements
are: Angela ZwaUy, Nelson
Tyson, John Ritchey and
Craig Schonour, guards;
Desiree Karr, office; Nancy
Wilson, snack bar; Craig
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John Ritchey, left, and Craig Schonour, right,
practice CPP skills on "Annie," a lifelike man­nequin
used in Red Cross- sponsored CPR
courses.
Wagaman, a s s is ta n t
manager; and Andy Am­way,
manager.
Amway noted that having
all eight certified assures
that there will be a CPR-trained
guard as well as
other personnel capable of
assisting available at all
times.
Growing population contributes to budget-busting
School district approves 4-mill tax hike
by Becky Collins
Residents of Warwick and
Elizabeth Townships and
Lititz Borough will notice a
decided increase in their
school district tax bills this
July 1.
The Warwick School
District Board of Directors
formally approved the
district’s budget for the 1987-
88 fiscal year Tuesday night
along with a 4 mill property
tax increase to support the
new budget.
The school district’s $12.27
million dollar budget
represents a 11.9 percent
increase over last year’s
operating budget. The new
millage rate is set at 39
mills, up from the current
rate of 35.
Earned income taxes will
remain at the rate of one-half
of one percent on
salaries, commissions or
other compensation of school
district residents. Oc­cupation
millage taxes will
remain at the rate of 100
mills on the assessed value
of all occuptions of persons
residing in the school
district, effective July 1.
All real estate and
occupation taxes paid on or
before Aug. 31 will carry a
discount of two percent.
Taxes paid on or before Oct.
31 will be paid at face value
and all taxes remaining
unpaid as of Nov. 1 will be
subject to a ten percent
penalty.
The board also approved a
one-half percent realty
transfer tax on transfer of
interest in real property
within the Warwick School
District to be calculated on
the value of the real estate.
Growing Pains
School officials have cited
salary increases and ad­ditions
to the staff as the
major reason for the budget
and tax increases. The
district plans to add nine
new teaching positions next
year, a move district of­ficials
say is necessary
because of expanding
enrollment in the district.
The school district’s rapid
growth has fueled the plan
for expansion of district
facilities. Building ex­pansion
projects are
currently in progress at John
Beck and Kissel Hill
Elementary schools. Future
expansion plans include
adding space at Warwick
High School.
A recent $4.5 million dollar
bond issue was passed by the
board to finance expansion
of the elementary schools
and to remove asbestos from
all the district’s buildings.
The cost of the bond issue is
also reflected in the 4 mill
tax hike.
The school district faces,
for the first time this fiscal
year the loss of an additional
$200,000 due to changes in the
distribution of Lancaster
County Earned Income Tax
funds.
The budget received
preliminary adoption by the
board in their April meeting.
A public meeting was held
May 5 to present the budget
to the public and to answer
any questions. According to
David Zerbe, only two
persons attended the
meeting besides members of
the school board.
Dr. John Bonfield,
superintendent of schools,
noted that the budget had
been on display in the
district’s office.
New Principal
Screening of applicants for
the John Beck Elementary
principal position is
cu r r en tly underway.
Wallace Hofferth noted that
there are currently 10-12
finalists for the position.
Those 12, he noted, will be
reviewed by the selection
committee and interviews of
the finalists will be con­ducted
in the June personnel
committee meeting. Dr.
Bonfield noted that there
was an equal distribution of
men and women applicants
for the position.
Personnel
In instructional personnel-related
matters, the board
accepted the resignation of
Mary Wenger, a teacher at
John Beck Elementary.
Wenger is resigning her
position to accept a church-related
position.
The board approved the
election of two elementary
teachers and one high school
teacher.
Joan Shaak, Manheim R3,
was approved as an
elementary teacher at Lititz
Elementary School effective
Sept. 8 at a salary of $27,052.
Dana Roy, 2125 Mt.
Washington Ave., Colorado
Springs, Colo., was approved
by the board as an
elementary teacher at John
Beck Elementary, effective
Sept, 8 at a salary of $19,115.
Laurel Hess, 727 Pearl
Ave., Manheim, was ap­proved
by the board as a
part-time chemistry teacher
in the high school effective
Sept. 8 for a pro-rated salary
of $17,275.
A leave of absence for
Rebecca Ocker, a teacher at
the middle school, was
approved by the board. Mrs.
Ocker will be taking an
unpaid leave of absence
from her duties for child
care effective Sept. 8, 1987
through the end of the first
semester of the 1987-88
school year.
R e s ig n a tio n s were
received from six extra-duty
personnel members. Carol
Morgan resigned her
position as assistant high
school basketball coach
effective the end of the 1986-
87 school year for personal
reasons.
Terry Kauffman, assistant
varsity football coach
resigned his position with the
school district effective
April 30, for personal
reasons.
Jennifer Poletti, high
school newspaper, Heidi
Limbert, assistant band
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Eight thefts in 4 days:
borough police seek clues
In this issue
Editoral 4
Sports Section 6,7,8
Social 14,15
Manheim 16,17
Church 18
Business Directory 19,20
Classified 21,22,23
Lititz Borough Police
Department officers have
been kept busy investigating
eight thefts reported bet­ween
May 15 and 18.
THEFTS
WARWICK MIDDLE
SCHOOL: Two bicycles
valued at a total of $350 were
reported missing from
Warwick Middle School.
Owen Sechrist, 402 Golden
St., told Officer Kevin Meil
that someone removed his
Mongoose bicycle valued at
$150 from the Warwick
Middle School parking area
May 15 between 7 p.m. and
10 p.m. The incident was
reported May 16 at 10:15
a.m.
WARWICK MIDDLE
SCHOOL: Todd Sensenich,
103 E. Market St., told Chief
Jim Fritz that someone took
his Predator BMX bicycle
valued at $200 from the
Warwick Middle School. The
incident occurred May 18
between 8 a.m. and 2:50 p.m.
and was reported May 18 at
3:40 p.m.
LINDEN HALL: Donald
Whitley, 212 E. Main St., told
Officer Ron Sandhaus that
someone entered his car and
removed a 10-band Mustang
graphic equalizer valued at
$20, seven cassette tapes in a
plastic case valued at $30, an
unknown amount of change,
and a silver necklace and
earrings valued at $80. The
incident occurred May 9 and
was reported 15 at 1:50
p.m.
LINDEN HALL: Donald
Whitley, 212 E. Main St., told
Officer Ron Sandhaus that
someone entered his wife’s
car and removed three
cassette tapes valued at $9
and $12 in change. An at­tempt
was made to remove
the vehicle’s radio. The
incident occurred between
May 14 at midnight and May
15 at 10 a.m. It was reported
May 15 at 1:50 p.m.
LINDEN HALL: Thomas
Zepp, 122 E. Main St.,
reported that his VW Rabbit
was taken from the Linden
Hall campus May 15 between
1 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. He
reported the incident to
OYncerTAerry 'fsye ’i&ay To at
3:30 a.m. The vehicle was
discovered in the Conestoga
Creek by Lancaster City
P.D. officers May 15.
FRY’s PONTIAC: Lee Fry
of Fry’s Pontiac, 529 E. Main
St., reported the theft of a
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